DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY LEADING TO LOW MORALITY

POSTER NO:
U. KAVYA,191911176, CSE, 1-YEAR
GUIDE: M. SATISH
ABSTRACT
The ethical values and behaviors are not only abstract terms, but they are refined and
conceptualized by real life experiences. The societal context where the actions of humans
can be analyzed by ethical decision-making is entirely relevant to deliberate on what is the
OBJECTIVE
right thing to do, and what the moral agent should do, since the ethical values and principles
response to the actual practices of life and to the needs of humans in the society. This
elaboration takes us to the realm of social ethics.
The relevant general moral considerations include:•Producing
INTRODUCTION benets•Avoiding, preventing,
and removing harms•Producing the maximal balance of benets
over harms and other costs
(often called utility)•Distributing benets and burdens fairly
(distributive justice) and ensuring
The basic insight of Kantianism isthat the ethical conduct is a matter of choosing to live one’s
public participation includ-ing the participation of affected parties
life according to moral principles and rules.The concept of a moral agent plays a central
(procedural
theory in Kant’s theory. A moral agent is someone who candistinguish between right and
justice)•Respecting autonomous choices and actions, including
wrong and can legislate and obey moral laws. Moral agents (or persons) areautonomous (or
liberty of action•Protecting
self-governing) insofar as they can choose to live according to moral rules. For Kant, 7h
privacy and condentiality•Keeping promises and
duuthemotives of agents (or reasons of actions) matter a great deal. One should do the right
commitments•Disclosing information as well
action for the rightreason. What is the right thing to do? According to Kant, the right thing to
as speaking honestly and truthfully (often grouped under
do is embodied in a principleknown as the categorical imperative. One of the categorical transparency)•Building and
imperatives holds that one should act in a waythat one’s conduct could become a universal maintaining trustSeveral of these general moral considerations
law for all people. –especially beneting others,
preventing and removingharms, and utility –provide a prima facie
warrant for many activities
in pursuit of the goal of public.

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